[ RESILIA Innovation Hub ]

Three Resilience Labs for a Common Purpose

The RESILIA Innovation Hub makes societal resilience tangible: locally in Berlin, mobile at organizations and municipalities, and digitally in the virtual space. The three resilience labs combine knowledge, training, and research into an offer that prepares people, strengthens collaboration, and makes new ways of crisis prevention practically tangible.

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[ Labs ]

Labs

Berlin

In-Person Resilience Lab Berlin

At Berlin Ostbahnhof, a place is being created where people can practically experience crisis preparedness. Through interactive scenarios, training, and game-based formats, it becomes tangible how to remain capable of action in emergencies — alone, together, or in collaboration with civil protection actors.

Mobile

Mobile Resilience Lab

The mobile lab brings the core content of the InnoHub directly to municipalities, administrations, organizations, and operators of critical infrastructures. This allows for training, scenarios, and exchange formats to take place where they are needed.

Digital

Digital Resilience Lab

The digital lab makes resilience education accessible regardless of location. It offers digital learning and simulation games for different age groups and life situations — including for people who cannot participate on-site.

Societal Resilience

Crisis Preparedness

Civil Protection

Knowledge Transfer

Practical Training

Research & Practice

Berlin

Mobile

Digital

Innovation

Collaboration

Operational Security

Simulation & Scenarios

Learning & Experience

Becoming More Resilient Together

Societal Resilience

Crisis Preparedness

Civil Protection

Knowledge Transfer

Practical Training

Research & Practice

Berlin

Mobile

Digital

Innovation

Collaboration

Operational Security

Simulation & Scenarios

Learning & Experience

Becoming More Resilient Together

Societal Resilience

Crisis Preparedness

Civil Protection

Knowledge Transfer

Practical Training

Research & Practice

Berlin

Mobile

Digital

Innovation

Collaboration

Operational Security

Simulation & Scenarios

Learning & Experience

Becoming More Resilient Together

Societal Resilience

Crisis Preparedness

Civil Protection

Knowledge Transfer

Practical Training

Research & Practice

Berlin

Mobile

Digital

Innovation

Collaboration

Operational Security

Simulation & Scenarios

Learning & Experience

Becoming More Resilient Together

[ Learn, Practice, Understand ]

What Happens in the Resilience Labs

The resilience labs combine information, experience, training, and research. Participants engage with realistic scenarios, learn the basics of crisis preparedness, and experience the impact of decisions, communication, and collaboration in challenging situations.

It’s not about abstract knowledge alone. The focus is on how people and organizations remain capable during crises: What happens during a power outage? How does communication change under stress? What roles do neighborhood, organizations, infrastructure, and authorities play? And how can different actors work together better? And how can training experiences be leveraged to further develop offers, technologies, and scenarios?

Scenarios

Realistic situations demonstrate how disruptions, everyday risks, and crises arise – and which decisions become important in those moments.

Training & Simulation

Practical exercises and simulated scenarios enhance self-preparedness, crisis competence, cooperation, and action security.

Simulation Games

Participants take on roles, make decisions, and experience how communication and collaboration impact the course of a situation.

Experience Spaces

Interactive and gamified elements make resilience education accessible, activating, and memorable.

Target Group Formats

The offers are suitably developed for the population, BOS, administration, KRITIS, and other actors.

Digital Learning Spaces

Virtual formats enable location-independent learning, practice, and deepening.

Digital Twin

The digital twin connects the resilience laboratories and supports realistic simulations of complex crisis situations.

Research

All offerings are scientifically monitored, evaluated, and continuously improved.

[ A Joint System ]

Berlin, Mobile and Digital Complement Each Other

The three resilience labs are not separate offerings but interlock with each other. The stationary lab in Berlin creates a fixed place for encounter, training, and demonstration. The mobile lab brings content and methods into real-life application contexts on-site. The digital lab expands access, making learning and practicing independent of location possible.

A digital twin connects the lab environments, makes scenarios configurable, and supports scientific evaluation. Insights from all three labs feed back into the development of the RESILIA Innovation Hub. This allows for content adjustments, the development of new scenarios, and tailoring offers to different target groups and situations.

[ Connecting with RESILIA ]

Resilience Begins with Exchange

Whether in research, practice, community, organization, or public: RESILIA invites sharing knowledge, testing scenarios, and developing new pathways for crisis prevention collaboratively.

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[ Target Groups ]

Offers for the Public, Practitioners, and Decision-Makers

The RESILIA Innovation Hub caters to different target groups who want to understand, convey, train, or strategically enhance resilience. The offerings are developed to accommodate diverse backgrounds, roles, and needs.

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Citizens

For people who want to know how they can better prepare themselves, their families, and their environment for disruptions, emergencies, and crises.

Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults

For target groups introduced to crisis preparedness, risk knowledge, and joint action through age-appropriate, game-based, and digital formats.

Civil Protection and Operational Practice

For fire departments, aid organizations, authorities, and other actors who want to train collaboration, understanding of roles, and decision-making paths in realistic scenarios.

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Municipalities, KRITIS and Decision-Makers

For administrations, operators of critical infrastructures, and political decision-makers who want to strategically strengthen resilience and test new solutions.

Municipalities, Administrations, and Critical Infrastructure

For stakeholders looking to better understand local risks, strengthen precautionary structures, and improve collaboration between organizations.

Research, Education and Innovation

For partners who want to develop, test, and implement new approaches to resilience education, security research, simulation, or digital support in practice.

[ Why the Innovation Hub is Emerging ]

Resilience is Strengthened When Trained Together

The RESILIA Innovation Hub strengthens the ability to better assess risks, act preparedly, and maintain orientation in uncertain situations. It conveys knowledge, makes action possibilities visible, and creates spaces for practically testing collaboration.

For citizens, this means: more security in handling everyday risks, disturbances, and crises. For organizations and institutions, it means: better communication, clearer roles, and increased shared operational security. For research and application, it means: new insights on which formats, technologies, and scenarios can effectively strengthen resilience.

Better Understand Risks

Complex situations become comprehensible and tangible – from local power outages to cross-departmental crisis scenarios.

Practice Acting

Interactive formats, simulations, and game-based elements convey knowledge not just theoretically but through firsthand experience.

Strengthen Collaboration

RESILIA promotes a shared understanding of roles between the public, authorities, organizations, research, and additional partners.

Make Decisions More Securely

Participants learn to assess situations, set priorities, and remain capable of acting even under uncertainty.

Promote Self-Preparedness

The offerings demonstrate how people can better prepare themselves, their surroundings, and their neighborhoods for disruptions, emergencies, and crises.

Test Innovations

New safety solutions, digital systems, and training approaches are tested, evaluated, and continuously improved at the RESILIA Innovation Hub.

[ FAQ ]

What is the RESILIA Innovation Hub?

The RESILIA Innovation Hub connects knowledge, training, research, and application. In the resilience labs, crisis preparedness, collaboration, and action competence are made tangible in realistic scenarios.

What is a resilience laboratory?

A resilience laboratory is a learning, demonstration, and testing environment. There, people and organizations can experience scenarios, practice decision-making, and train collaboration in challenging situations.

What is the stationary resilience lab Berlin?

The stationary resilience lab Berlin is a permanent place for meeting, training, and experiential resilience education. It is being developed at the Ostbahnhof Berlin.

Can I visit the Resilience Lab in Berlin?

The stationary Resilience Lab in Berlin is currently under construction. An opening date has not yet been set. As soon as bookings are possible, we will provide information on this website about dates, offers, and participation conditions.

Are the offerings scientifically monitored?

Yes. The formats are scientifically monitored, evaluated, and continuously developed further.

[ Partner Network ]

Together for Resilience

Science, fire departments, disaster research, AI, and security research pool their perspectives – for solutions that are comprehensible and effective in crises.

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Research Partners

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[ Voices from the Project ]

Perspectives on Resilience

"Resilience means for a modern fire department, thinking beyond the operation. For me, RESILIA means exactly that: taking responsibility, actively researching security solutions, networking and sharing knowledge, and when it matters, working together effectively."

“The resilience labs aim with educational offerings at promoting risk competence, understood as the ability of individuals and communities to understand risks in their heterogeneity and complexity, to realistically assess their own vulnerabilities and capacities, to make informed decisions about acceptable risks, and to independently contribute to the protection of the community.”

"Technology forms the basis for a modern society. Resilience must therefore also plan for dependencies and errors in technology."

“RESILIA enables us to examine the human factor in connected laboratories in an interdisciplinary way and make it simulatable and tangible in crisis management.”

"Against the backdrop of the current threat situation, it will become increasingly important that in civil-military cooperation, the civilian support of the armed forces is more strongly considered and trained as a pillar of civil defense."

"Resilience arises where human behavior, technological systems, and robust decision-making processes are understood together. With RESILIA, we aim to develop, evaluate, and utilize Artificial Intelligence precisely at this interface to create adaptive and realistic training environments for complex crisis scenarios."